Sunday, June 5, 2011

How to avoid growing number of Internet scams

12:16 AM | Posted by Daniel "adoy" |
Hard times seem to make people more vulnerable to ploys designed to separate them from their money and personal information. At least half of BBB Online's list of the Top 10 scams of 2010 occur in whole or in part over the Internet.
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Saturday, June 4, 2011

Police: Man Stole Nude Photos From Hacked E-mail Accounts

11:43 PM | Posted by Daniel "adoy" |
A 24-year-old Florida man was arrested Thursday on charges that he broke into women's Web mail accounts, looking for explicit photos to post online.

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Portsmouth woman loses $13,000 in online scam

11:23 PM | Posted by Daniel "adoy" |
Portsmouth police say a local woman's experiences with a man she met through an online dating site should serve as a warning.

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India security: BlackBerry CEO walks out of interview

10:54 PM | Posted by Daniel "adoy" |
TORONTO: Research In Motion RIM) founder Mike Lazaridis ordered a BBC reporter to stop the interview after he was asked questions about his problems with India and Middle East countries which are seeking accessing to BlackBerry enterprise emails in view of national security issues.
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India Issues New Security Rules for Phone Operators

10:38 PM | Posted by Daniel "adoy" |
India has relaxed some of its security rules for telecommunications operators and equipment suppliers, after earlier rules that required equipment makers to deposit software source code with the government came in for criticism.
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Thursday, June 2, 2011

WHO: Cell phones may cause cancer

4:12 AM | Posted by Daniel "adoy" |
Radiation from cell phones could possibly cause cancer, according to the World Health Organization.
In a report issued today, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which is an arm of the WHO, said it now lists mobile phone use in the same category as lead, gasoline engine exhaust, and chloroform. Officially, cell phone radiation is listed as a "carcinogenic hazard."
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Previewing ‘Windows 8’

3:41 AM | Posted by Daniel "adoy" |
Julie Larson-Green

June 1, 2011-Today, at the D9 Conference, we demonstrated the next generation of Windows, internally code-named “Windows 8,” for the first time. Windows 8 is a reimagining of Windows, from the chip to the interface. A Windows 8-based PC is really a new kind of device, one that scales from touch-only small screens through to large screens, with or without a keyboard and mouse.

The demo showed some of the ways we’ve reimagined the interface for a new generation of touch-centric hardware. Fast, fluid and dynamic, the experience has been transformed while keeping the power, flexibility and connectivity of Windows intact.
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Windows 8, iOS 6 set for tablet face off in 2012

3:18 AM | Posted by Daniel "adoy" |
The next version of Microsoft's Windows operating system puts a much bigger emphasis on tablets, yet by the time it's released Apple could be a whole two versions ahead from where it's at with its current tablet OS.
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Twitter launches own photo-sharing service

2:55 AM | Posted by Daniel "adoy" |
Twitter CEO, Dick Costolo
Twitter is getting its own photo-sharing service, CEO Dick Costolo announced at the D9 conference today. It will roll out over the next few weeks to all users.

"We need to remove the friction from adding photos to Twitter," Costolo said.
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Google 'disrupts' Gmail phishing scheme in China

2:40 AM | Posted by Daniel "adoy" |
Google today said that it's "detected and disrupted" a plan to gain access to hundreds of Gmail accounts through phishing attacks.


That effort, which Google says originated in Jinan, China, targeted user account credentials so that attackers could gain access to
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Google launches +1, a new social step

2:34 AM | Posted by Daniel "adoy" |
plus 1 (+1) button
Google, having failed to out-Facebook Facebook and to out-Twitter Twitter with Buzz, began a more modest attempt today to build social-networking features into its Web presence: the +1 button.
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